One of the people that was most influential for me was my best friend Jackie. She did many things that changed who I was and who I am today. We met in 8th grade after she moved into our school district from the local Catholic School, something she hated going to.
Our friendship began with us being on the same bus and being a few of the same classes during that year. It all began one day in Home-Economics, a class they made you take every year in my middle school, I was listening to my IPod at the end of class one day, it was Kelly Clarkson’s album from 2010 and I think the song was All I Ever Wanted, I viewed it as a safe song and asked her if she wanted to listen to which she said yes and we just started talking from there. That day was the first day we spoke at length about anything and we still joke about that moment all these years later.
There are a lot of things she has influenced me by being. Jackie is very open and sexual its something that by doing she really reminds me that I always need to be myself whether it’s going be good or bad because if you aren’t yourself, who are you? That is one of Jackie’s famous quotes that she tells me all the time to this day.
Another way she has influenced me in a big way is that she stopped me from doing something that could have changed everything in my life. During my entire school career I was bullied for pretty much anything, I was called every name in the book at least once. It grew all my life, I became depressed around the time Jackie and I met in 8th grade because I just wanted to be treated like a normal human, Jackie’s words, but they wouldn’t give up and by the time sophomore year was upon the two of us I was deeply depressed and was thinking of suicide. One night during that year I called her crying in the middle of the night saying I was about to do it and to say good bye, she talked me down, she talked until I fell asleep at 3 am and she texted me whenever she could during the next day since we didn’t share the same classes always. Jackie just wanted me to be alright and she single-handedly brought me out of my depression because she always stands up for me now I haven’t been bullied since.
With that story and all others I have with Jackie have influenced me in big ways because they remind me that I am cared for, that I am someone to people and that I can do whatever I want in life. That I’ve made a difference in her life just as she has in mine are big things to us and remind the both of us we are loved and can be happy like we are now. It's hard being here without her, she goes to Iona in New York, but we are in contact as much as we can be and she is going to come up for a Ram tour, so I'll see her soon.
Our friendship began with us being on the same bus and being a few of the same classes during that year. It all began one day in Home-Economics, a class they made you take every year in my middle school, I was listening to my IPod at the end of class one day, it was Kelly Clarkson’s album from 2010 and I think the song was All I Ever Wanted, I viewed it as a safe song and asked her if she wanted to listen to which she said yes and we just started talking from there. That day was the first day we spoke at length about anything and we still joke about that moment all these years later.
There are a lot of things she has influenced me by being. Jackie is very open and sexual its something that by doing she really reminds me that I always need to be myself whether it’s going be good or bad because if you aren’t yourself, who are you? That is one of Jackie’s famous quotes that she tells me all the time to this day.
Another way she has influenced me in a big way is that she stopped me from doing something that could have changed everything in my life. During my entire school career I was bullied for pretty much anything, I was called every name in the book at least once. It grew all my life, I became depressed around the time Jackie and I met in 8th grade because I just wanted to be treated like a normal human, Jackie’s words, but they wouldn’t give up and by the time sophomore year was upon the two of us I was deeply depressed and was thinking of suicide. One night during that year I called her crying in the middle of the night saying I was about to do it and to say good bye, she talked me down, she talked until I fell asleep at 3 am and she texted me whenever she could during the next day since we didn’t share the same classes always. Jackie just wanted me to be alright and she single-handedly brought me out of my depression because she always stands up for me now I haven’t been bullied since.
With that story and all others I have with Jackie have influenced me in big ways because they remind me that I am cared for, that I am someone to people and that I can do whatever I want in life. That I’ve made a difference in her life just as she has in mine are big things to us and remind the both of us we are loved and can be happy like we are now. It's hard being here without her, she goes to Iona in New York, but we are in contact as much as we can be and she is going to come up for a Ram tour, so I'll see her soon.